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Otta

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  1. Otta

    Football Focus

    Balotelli is available. Just saying.
  2. Otta

    Football Focus

    Haha, it does feel a bit like that. This has reminds me of the ill fated summer that Moves took charge and tried to bring Fabragas in. And like then, it's fallen through pretty late I'm the day, so will it lead to panic buying...
  3. Otta

    Football Focus

    Wow, saw that in the gossip column this morning but didn't take it that seriously. I wonder now whether this had something to do with it... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33865888
  4. Roy Castle wasn't just breathing normally, he was up on stage (smoke rises) taking big breaths to full his lungs. Not disagreeing with your point, but Roy Castle was not typical.
  5. Otta

    Labour Leadership

    Thing is, even if Corbyn ended up ad PM. He still wouldn't get most of hospices through, so I can't see there being that mich major change. Hope someone gets rid if free schools though, because they really are a recipe for further inequality, and the most vulnerable just being refused a place. Very much one of those things that sounds good on paper, bit actually really isn't unless you're a healthy middle class kid with suitably aspirational parents.
  6. Why were they all deleted? I liked the one about the copper. Seems a shame to put off someone that is actually trying to engage in the forum. Although I didn't read all the posts so could have missed something.
  7. A live amplified band with a drummer is a hell of a lot louder than a pisshead.
  8. Indeed. Good effort!
  9. I think I said it on facebook, so that doesn't count. Knife & fork + burger = Wrongun!!!
  10. Bit harsh on Penge! But yeah it does have a couple of proper dives (as well as a couple of nice places).
  11. Otta

    Labour Leadership

    Phil. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll admit that my knowledge of British politics > is limited (I moved here from Australia 1.5 years > ago) but if it were at all possible, wouldn't be > great to have David Miliband make a dramatic > return and run for the leadership?!! He;s supporting Liz Kendall, so no, I'm pleased he's nowhere near the party.
  12. Anything that encourages less car use is a good thing.
  13. Yeah the wife calls itba Spanish omelette. We're a bit common innit.
  14. You're right, and I didn't mean to come across as having a dig at RainbowSibs, as I say, they need to get paid. More just a rant about the cuts in public spending which mean that services like this are the very first thing to get cut.
  15. Reading this has reminded me how totally out of touch with rugby I've become. It's the only sport I ever really excelled at playing, and I used to be quite a fan. And yet I've not watched a match in probably 5 years.
  16. Just looked at their prices. Get all the support your desperately need and deserve... ... if you're wealthy. If not, jog on. And yes, I know these people need to make money, but it just makes me so angry that services like this are not publically funded and accessible for people that can't afford to pay ?30 an hour.
  17. Take your point that it's not a hipster ice cream shop we're talking about, but; 1. I have never said a thing about (and was not hinting at) "social cleansing". That's more of an Elephant & Castle issue. 2. You're not from the groups we're talking about, so it's not really for you to say what should and shouldn't make them resentful. If resentment has clouded your vision, then even nice things can look ugly. Just look at some of the negative comments about Picturehouse East Dulwich (which is a great addition to the area).
  18. If you saw your whole area changing to the tastes of people from a different group to your own, you might become resentful. But anyway, this thread shouldn't lean too far that way. I say again, it's a wonderful idea.
  19. Otta

    Labour Leadership

    Yeah that's one way to look at it (and the reason I've not counted out a Corbyn vote). People say he's unelectable, but I am not sure I can see any of the others winning in 2020, so perhaps Cobyn should mix things up and then let someone new come and mount a real challenge...
  20. I did a few blasts of this at a destival in 2007. It was good fun at the time, but it's such a quick hit you could easily end up doing too much.
  21. Otta

    Labour Leadership

    Okay, so I have my ballot papers, and I genuinely don?t know how to vote. I am not convinced by Jeremy Cobyn?s plans to print money, that is a worry. I also don?t think policies like scrapping trident (which I do personally agree with) would ever win him a general election, so what?s the point? That said, none of the others have even come close to winning me over. I like Andy Burnham and think he?s a good guy. But he?s fought a rubbish campaign, just lurching from populist stance to populist stance and trying to steal some of Corbyn's thunder. I like the fact that Yvette Cooper is the only one willing to say ?hang on a minute, we did good things in government and the global financial crisis wasn?t all the Labour Party?s fault?, rather than just accepting (and indeed apologising for a?la Burnham) the Tory rhetoric which has more or less just been accepted as fact by the majority of people. However, I don?t much like the way she?s fought her campaign, she comes across as arrogant and she?s a dirty fighter, but then maybe just maybe that?s what we need week in week out at PM?s questions. Why do they all go on about schools and hospitals, schools and hospitals, schools and hospitals, and never mention social care, which is JUST AS BLOODY IMPORTANT!!!!! Liz Kendall DOES actually say good things about social care, but other than that she can jog on. Sorry about the long post, just trying to think it through. Corbyn would DEFINITELY be the most fun to watch, but perhaps I should just stick to HBO for my entertainment? Hmmm, Cooper?. Burnham? I did say at the start that a woman leader would be good? Aaaaggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe I should just put my hand over Kendall?s box then close my eyes and tick one of the others. Although Kendall may not want my hand over her box.
  22. Haha, I was just thinking I should have said that.
  23. My missus spent a month teaching in Bordeaux back when we were first together. Great place. Had the best crepes I've ever tasted there.
  24. I agree, great great idea, and I am sure the organisers genuinely wish to include everyone. But if from the onset it looks like this is a thing for white middle classes, other groups (including white not middle classes) will just think it's not for them, and quite possibly resent the whole thing, maybe even opposing it.
  25. Indeed, good for them. Although for the life of me (and I realise this puts me in a minority) I just don't "get" the whole burger thing.
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